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9780719081729: Human agents and social structures
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ISBN 10: 0719081726 ISBN 13: 9780719081729
Editorial: Manchester University Press, 2010

Sinopsis

This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate - such as ’society’ and the ’individual’ - have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real nature of the social world is respected.

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Peter J. Martin is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester.

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The structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in recent discussions of social theory. It has been widely assumed that the key theoretical task is to find a link between social structures and acting human beings - to reconcile the macro with the micro, society and the individual.

The contributors to this book reject this solution to the problem. For them, both the concept of 'society' as an entity and the freely-acting 'individual' are theoretical fiction. Rather, the immediate task of the social sciences is to take the social world seriously, to understand the ways in which that world emerges dynamically from, and exerts influence on, the interactions of real people in real situations.

This timely collection is not intended as an even-handed review of the debate, but as a deliberately polemical intervention which aims to highlight some of the ways in which its central terms have been misconceived.

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The structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in recent discussions of social theory. It has been widely assumed that the key theoretical task is to find a link between social structures and acting human beings to reconcile the macro with the micro, society and the individual.The contributors to this book reject this solution to the problem. For them, both the concept of society as an entity and the freely-acting individual are theoretical fiction. Rather, the immediate task of the social sciences is to take the social world seriously, to understand the ways in which that world emerges dynamically from, and exerts influence on, the interactions of real people in real situations.This timely collection is not intended as an even-handed review of the debate, but as a deliberately polemical intervention which aims to highlight some of the ways in which its central terms have been misconceived.

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Editorial
Manchester University Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0719081726
ISBN 13 
9780719081729
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
192
Editor
Denis Alex, Dennis Alex, Martin Peter J.
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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